Are you comfortably settled in front of your screen? And you even have some time to read this piece which is undoubtedly as long as any other article on this website…
I’ve heard that you can’t write a long article for online sites. Because you’re basically asking your reader to scroll down. And to stay longer in front of their screen. And that’s not comfortable.

Of course, I don’t believe this and if someone has that kind of state of mind, I don’t see that person in one of the many venues that I promote here where comfort is not in the program.
About this notion of comfort: let’s explore that trough the many events around town.

The concept is obviously very relative: not only what you find comfortable might not be what I find the same, but the very same person might accept with grace a very high level of discomfort under certain circumstances, while not at all usually.

Like backpackers, when they are away from home.

EXPOS – ARTSY

Kultuurkaffe is nomadic this year because of renovation work. That doesn’t prevent them organise the 3rd edition of the Bang Festival. This year, all events are taking place at The Brussels Art Institute.
The festival is dedicated to arts, in general, this year around the thematic of “No Comfort, No Zone” curated by Johannes Verschaeve.

It’s a great opportunity to discover the production of dutch speakers artists: knowing that Kultuurkaffee is the cultural center of the VUB and The Brussels Institute is the studio of artist Jan de Cock, where many events are taking place.

A new non-profit art initiative is starting this week in Brussels. Its name is Heterotopia and is nomadic. For their first exhibition, they asked Caroline Le Méhauté, Charlotte Nieuwenhuys, Mathieu Zurtrassen and Stéphanie Roland to show their work around the concept of Heterotopia (a concept by Foucault).

The exhibition is taking place in a building which is still under renovation, so not all the comfort are to be found there. Here is a sneak view of the place:

The Hotel Bloom is hosting an artist residency on their penthouse. The current one is coming to an end and the two artists are showing their work this Friday.
Maria Montesi worked around the concept of comfort, related to the hospitality industry, while Rokko Miyoshi explored the short memory concept and how it shapes our thoughts, and what make us forget or remember things…

This concept of memory is also part of the work by one of the artists exhibiting at Plagiarama, another non-profit art venue, curated by Yuna Mathieu Chovet.
Élodie Huet is the one exploring memory trough archive and accumulation…
Anne-Lise Seusse is doing a more anthropologist work and looking at people who choose to have a different lifestyle and while doing so, she is questioning the whole society.

Merveiles & Guacamole is a fanzine: each publication is about a subject. “Mode, merveilles et pailletttes” is the subject of the new edition and they invite whoever want to join them for a small launch party in a comfortable appartment in Elsene.

CINE

Offscreen festival is still on and next Monday, they’re screening “The Room” a horrible movie, probably the worst movie ever in the history of worst movies. That’s a very uncomfortable position to have for a movie… Not to mention that it became a cult movie and people laughing while wathcing it, which made its creator Tommy Wiseau to explain that the movie is actually a dark comedy. But he doesn’t fool anyone.

After a certain time with no activities at all, Les Mariniers is back and organising again something. This Saturday it’s the opening of a mediatheque. For the occasion you can check the exhibition about all movie posters from Poland (when it was still under USSR) and also enjoy a concert from a polish band called Baaba:

This Sunday, Hekla invites the public to a Sunday party in the afternoon with Dj sets and concerts. Hekla is also a non-profit independent art venue, so whatever money they will raise will serve to help them with their project.

And Bonnefooie is also hosting many events every week, nearly every day. Next Wednesday, Howling Owl will be playing there:

PARTIES

Party, baby? On Thursday, you might want to go at La Casa Latina for a party called Discount Arrows. The line-up seems very good if you like electro music and I give them bonus point for their flyer which looks like the ad of an African wizard. That said, the party is held in one of those bars in Matonge, so maybe you’ll meet a wizard…

Saturday night, why not get a drink at the Crazy Circle, also situated in Elsene. That could be the opportunity to discover the place without really taking any big risks: get just a little bit outside your comfort zone to see for yourself is the place is as cool as some people are saying…

The very good party this week-end is probably the one by the team of Holger. The party is going to take place in a venue that I already talked to you about by giving just the address as it didn’t have a name. Now it is called The Lodge and I’m not going to be against what it seems so comfortable…

Yelyam

Cover Picture: people sitting on the – not comfortable – floor for the Free54, Place Sainte-Catherine, Brussels – August 2015